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Today in Data News: Challengers in European policy, and we look at the Singaporean practice of data. Headlines include Microsoft's Abandoning MFA (link), Tories in UK Bought and Manipulated 10m Voter Records (link), and 165 Companies Have Called For European Action Against Google (link).
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A group in Europe has formed of "also-rans" (sorry, that's uncharitable 😂).
Because all of the oxygen in tech and regulation is taken by FAMGA, companies that sit one tier down are apparently feeling a bit like rowboats in the ocean.
Jurisdictional data restrictions and the like affect Mozilla and Stripe and Spotify just as they do Facebook, but these companies must just throw up their hands on a regular basis. No one in Belgium and London is taking working group lunches with the policy team at Transferwise. (Again, uncharitable, but I can't be too far off the mark).
These companies have formed a "whine and dine" group online, the Information reports, to talk about the challenges of adhering to and trying to influence laws when nobody will listen to you. The power and influence of the real baddies atop the pyramid is a cloak of invisibility for these smaller co's. Is anyone using that invisibility for mischief, I wonder? If no one's going to pay attention to your policies, does it even matter what they are?
Oh well, I guess we'll never know! Happy weekend.
Stripe, Mozilla, Others Form Tech ‘Challenger Group’ to Sway European Policy | The Information
Now, some research
Singapore’s Take on the GDPR
The country has approved an amendment to their landmark Personal Data Protection Act
Singapore has passed a comprehensive amendment to the 2012 Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). Companies in the country are now allowed to use personal data without consent for certain purposes. This may sound like a free-for-all (especially compared to the GDPR), but the amendment includes a list of guidelines that transition a considerable amount of responsibility to companies. They must perform risk assessments, give consumers opt-out periods, and follow a slew of other directives. Choosing not to comply will lead to immense fines. Singapore’s version of the GDPR serves its purpose well - it is a compromise between a small country and large companies.
Check out our blog if you’d like to read more about Singapore’s olive branch amendment. Click here to read the amendment in full.
Sources: Lexology, Pinsent Masons
Here are the rest of your headlines
The Information (@theinformation) reports that a lobby group in Europe has formed, casually named The Challenger Group, and includes Mozilla, Stripe, Transferwise, Etsy, Dropbox, and Spotify. https://t.co/8TYSjhFGfR
— DataNewswire (@NewswireData) November 13, 2020
According to @InfosecurityMag, @Microsoft is requesting companies leave behind voice and SMS-based multi-factor authentication due to lack of encryption and inflexible systems. https://t.co/tr8cJAvbss
— DataNewswire (@NewswireData) November 13, 2020
The Register (@TheRegister) confirms an ICO report has exposed the UK Tory party for purchasing and attaching onomastic data to 10 million voters' records. https://t.co/04qtWVKvwY
— DataNewswire (@NewswireData) November 13, 2020
Mozilla has released their annual 'Privacy not included' gift list (@TechCrunch). https://t.co/RYIJB7L8iK
— DataNewswire (@NewswireData) November 13, 2020
165 companies have called for tough action against Google (@google) by EU regulators. A joint letter to EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager (@vestager) claimed its accommodation, travel, and jobs searches unfairly gave preference to its own products. https://t.co/BWZy0UjV0q
— DataNewswire (@NewswireData) November 12, 2020
TechCrunch (@techcrunch) has confirmed that AI and Data Analytics company Databricks (@databricks) has launched SQL Analytics, a service for data analysts to run their standard SQL queries directly on data lakes. It will become available in public preview starting November 18. https://t.co/oYrXFqJHqC
— DataNewswire (@NewswireData) November 12, 2020
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Jonathan Holtby
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